being a mom

teflon hands
chrome wings
mom's minivan
flies through the air
returns to home base
for dinner

rides
through the
fading sun -
lights up the town
with songs
and giggles

tucks you
in with tired,
grateful hands

worries through
her light sleep

and tomorrow is the same
and tomorrow is new
because you are growing

Ten words for today

an unfinished pile
teeters
catch
before it hits
the floor

overnight

dawn park tour

scraggly squirrels
empty dime bags casually
left behind
candy wrappers

each morning
my path continues
to surprise

the squirrels
are the same
players
sometimes
they eat
chips
or corn
on the cob

i try to figure
out what last
night's party
was like

I am glad
I was sleeping

Me

kind brunette
plain with blush

blessed, kind

glasses, blue pants,
coffee, chalk,
crayons
and babies

ladies of the eighties (not to be confused with ladies in their eighties)

flames fill the fluorescent
yellow painted room
with red

furious pink panted
legs fume out of
the 80's dance hall
revolution

leg warmers on fire
two big-haired ladies
shield their Aqua-net
drowned heads

the party, over
the night drifts on
through to dawn

substance lost
burned to the ground
a one night escape
is all they found

in the home of
the pink panted
men
where the big-haired
ladies stayed on

into the morning light
of the fluorescent
orange-pink
sunrise

blue mascara
smudged eyes
drool down
their face
as they stagger
through the
walk of shame
until they reach
the wallpapered
rooms they call home

tall tim talks a lot

tall Tim
told  a tale
until the end
of the wagon
ride

we parted
between lunch
and tea

I hadn't said
a word, you see

and then
he asked
tomorrow,
would I be free

without a whisper
I waved bye-bye
left him to wonder
why, why, why

love

let the people live
and rules slip away
like a rain-coated rock
on a stormy day

let the sun shine
and the snow fall
and singing voices
fill the hall

the largest hammer
will down the wall
that separates colors,
sexes, and all

love your brothers
and stand tall
the whole world
will hear the call